"I grew up in a castle!" - Children and Books

00:00:00: Hello and welcome to the children and book podcast is the first official episode.

00:00:09: And I'm happy with me today we're going to talk about the process of getting out publisher or getting a writer.

00:00:20: And I'm happy that Rachel is with us and helping us with the whole language and developing process.

00:00:31: It's lovely to be here.

00:00:35: It's great to be involved in there and so interesting the hear about how the stories come about the Beano and the whole process of writing for her

00:00:47: yeah it's interesting it's podcast I have to see so we are not used to do it it is just a new experience and to talk on English is new but not totally,

00:01:01: yes yes.

00:01:05: Maybe the first and most important question for this episode and how did you get a writer

00:01:13: yeah how do I get a right I have to say I was born in the gdr this was hot chillistick part of Germany and they grew up on a castle

00:01:24: but it was not just a dream Castle like with when you have got this world Disney films it was a very old Building and there where a lot of cows a lot of chicken and all the Seas,

00:01:39: so it was a bit shahram down

00:01:42: near this castle was a big park in through this park I went every day and year after year they were built

00:01:52: dinosaurs so it was just a crazy crazy place to grow up I went a lot to book.

00:02:01: To have my inner World in this reading Birds to two went from this very realistic and a guitar

00:02:12: that sounds really interesting and it.

00:02:17: Very interesting for me about because of my work and how I work in

00:02:23: helping children to find their stories as well and two to work out their difficulties through making stories and through play.

00:02:34: And it's very interesting because I did it myself and I've just heard you say that you did it was a kind of escape into the fantasy world but book some stories with.

00:02:47: And it gives us that kind of place of safety because we are contained within the story.

00:02:54: Yes we can explore quite horrific sometime particularly in children stories as many dangers of goodies and baddies and.

00:03:06: This idea that that you.

00:03:13: We came to your your passion in life of writing

00:03:18: be your own experience of using story as a way to make sense of the world yeah it's Kate that's a very important words that is Cape

00:03:30: word for stays keep to read books and after I escaped to rights and because every time when I write I really

00:03:38: jump into the story and I'm in another word then and then the story is happening and I'm describing it and then I come back to the real,

00:03:49: it's really interesting because I hated reading when I was young and to be honest I just started with Reading.

00:03:58: Hugo and

00:04:01: I'm really interesting right now I really love reading books I mostly read non-fiction books but the only books I read in my parents were children's books and

00:04:15: most of the children's books I leave and edition read to me health and this like allotment process.

00:04:24: For me and all the aspects that are important as a child.

00:04:31: And you found now your own way to have relation to books but I have to say you listen to a lot that's funny interesting because you see now the change of Generations I don't know how it wasn't England

00:04:44: you are so Rachel because when I grow up in the gdr we only have big black records to listen to it.

00:04:53: There was not too much maybe we had five of them at home and when I was ill I could listen to it or I could repeat it and repeated and that was it so I was a a chance Wall Street on my own.

00:05:08: I don't know how it is in England but books were very you know books are very important in childhood in the UK.

00:05:18: We have a children's laureate so you know the person who's responsible for you know what them for.

00:05:27: Putting new stories and new poems for children out there and we have a book trust as well.

00:05:38: And when my children were little they when they when they started Nursery School around the age of 2 or 3.

00:05:47: They would be given a little bag with books in as you know.

00:05:52: Hi sweetie to passage but they were able to attend.

00:05:59: Have their own little book bag and Carry around.

00:06:08: Yeah I'm in books have been a big part of my life as well and my parents had a book shop.

00:06:16: When I was when I wasn't.

00:06:22: Are you in a paradise in a young my husband and I when we were when we first met at university.

00:06:32: We started up a book market and then we were selling books on and on a market second-hand books.

00:06:40: And records and and said my husband's business record and book business.

00:06:49: Grew up until I don't know it must have been just before.

00:06:56: The late 1990s I think when the the net book agreement and finished in the UK

00:07:04: open up until then he is booked this was going well but after that it wasn't so good.

00:07:11: Is interesting because to shine and me dreams a lot to be a publisher.

00:07:17: To be a publisher and to help people to publish the books but be always has been together with this minority language so

00:07:27: interesting is now we are publishers just just not just with the minority but on the on the whole wide that's awesome interesting

00:07:39: with the globalisation and digitalisation it's possible for us for other publishers and other people

00:07:48: to be present in the whole world and it's a really nice thought we can inspire kids and

00:07:56: totally different languages and totally different areas on the world

00:08:01: and the people are reading the books and maybe and maybe other other content from other art is whatever and the such a thing is possible it's actually really good and can wait for me because I grew up with this digital world and it's nothing new to me.

00:08:20: This process is grade I think.

00:08:24: Yeah it isn't it a good thought that children all over the world can all,

00:08:31: come to invite or to to explore the smelly visor river.

00:08:37: In the same adventure that isn't making everything

00:08:48: and accessible to everyone.

00:08:52: Yes it is your writing in your in your minority language can you tell me a bit more about that labena.

00:08:59: Yeah in my little minority language is a very big need of wood stories and so I

00:09:07: what what is for me nice I could really explore

00:09:11: a lot of kinds of writing so I do write some texts or audio stories or books,

00:09:21: a lot of little stories and this is so nice to when I now see back and see all the messages of creativity was very nice,

00:09:33: and I like to explore ideas which are coming to me.

00:09:39: Yeah and my beginning I think my first thing which I wrote was was

00:09:45: poem I started with poems like how many was a poem how I'm sitting on a cow because of the castle that I grew up with a lot of cows and once I had to do it and then there was a minority language to competition

00:10:03: off for young Writers where I

00:10:07: I went and what is very very important when you are writer you need on your way people.

00:10:15: Or they are teacher or they are all authors to who are supporting you

00:10:21: so I had really the lock quiet two teacher one and Roman one in my language upper sorbian

00:10:29: which are really supporting and getting me a feedback a good feedback normally only if more than and negative and when I studied I hate good head very friend she worked

00:10:43: on the radio station and she said to me you been up right me some little audio stories for children I need

00:10:52: 20 of them in a mountain and then I always sit down and road and Road so I.

00:10:58: So as a people or other students worked in a coffee and I was writing.

00:11:05: Possibilities and you need to be able to respond to those opportunities when they when they come up and when they arrive.

00:11:18: That's really interesting there been a guess I'm I'm kind of interested in those opposite but the globalisation.

00:11:28: Thinking aspect of what we doing now about kind of putting something out there that will kind of have a wide reach out of the world and,

00:11:38: you being very committed to writing in your own,

00:11:44: minority language so that that language is preserved and kept for future generations and I guess they might be opposites but the two can come together as well as that minority language is.

00:11:58: Is becomes more known about because of your.

00:12:04: You're wanting to spread I guess and put yourself out there in the world I don't think that was that I was just a lovely that came to me while you were talking.

00:12:14: I think this is a very big pointed it just touching me because for me it is important to support and to help my little language

00:12:25: let's Nutri-Grain have new stories which may love and to grow up with it.

00:12:33: The other way is to go out to and what is what was very important for me what's the place where we met Rachel we met on Tenerife on a clowns course with the Jade and 12.

00:12:45: I think I can tell it to everybody and to

00:12:51: invite everybody to do it because it's opened me to the Verge there I was

00:12:58: I need to talk on English this is the one point in the other point was I met you and I'm at other people from the world yeah that's lovely isn't it it's about it's about the connections that you can make.

00:13:12: And.

00:13:14: And then making those connections again you know opening up opportunities that opening up the world a little bit wider for one another.

00:13:25: I think you're right you know you know people do you know about about Tenerife and Castle saraswathi.

00:13:35: Yeah and then you get new from as a new to new new single.

00:13:41: Or to hold on I need to say if I wouldn't be there and to have all this experience is there wouldn't be able to hold the bitterness of all this project.

00:13:54: So I think we will take know that strength and it's about being able to get in touch with the comfort.

00:14:04: Inside you and.

00:14:07: It's not fair it's not fair inside all of us it is there it's just sometimes it's difficult to to access to feel that it's.

00:14:16: Yeah they think this time we put Celine card out Franco we will put the link of centenary for experience of the sun in the links down.

00:14:31: Ok

00:14:32: Yeah so do you listen house I'm very happy that we had this interesting talk I I heard a lot of new things to

00:14:44: always happy when I think about what happens or what happened so I get a more clearer if you.

00:14:54: To the life into the writing I like to invite you will be back with you soon and I say to you both.

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